Le nozze di Figaro /

Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Corporate Author:	Royal Opera House (London, England) (Performer)
Other Authors:	Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838 (Librettist), Schrott, Erwin (Performer), Persson, Miah (Performer), Finley, Gerald, 1960- (Performer), Röschmann, Dorothea (Performer), Shaham, Rinat (Performer), Veira, Jonathan (Performer), Araya, Graciela (Performer), Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010 (Performer), Pappano, Antonio, 1959- (Conductor), McCallin, Tanya (Set designer, Costume designer), Constable, Paule (Lighting designer), Hausman, Leah (movement director.), Haswell, Jonathan (Director), Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
Format:	Unknown
Language:	Italian English French German Spanish
Published:	Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex : Opus Arte, [2008]
Subjects:	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Drama. Marriage > Drama. Man-woman relationships > Drama. Filmed performances. Opera films. Operas.

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Summary:	Preparing for their wedding, the valet Figaro learns from the maid Susanna that their philandering employer, Count Almaviva, has designs on her. In her boudoir, the Countess laments her husband's waning love but plots to chasten him, encouraged by Figaro and Susanna. Susanna leads the Count on with promises of a rendezvous in the garden. Alone later that day, Susanna rhapsodizes on her love for Figaro, but he, overhearing, thinks she means the Count. Almaviva chases Cherubino away and sends his wife, who he thinks is Susanna, to an arbor, to which he follows. By now Figaro understands the joke and, joining the fun, makes exaggerated love to Susanna in her Countess disguise. The Count returns, seeing, or so he thinks, Figaro with his wife. Outraged, he calls everyone to witness his judgment, but now the real Countess appears and reveals the ruse. Grasping the truth at last, the Count begs her pardon.
Item Description:	Opera buffa in 4 acts; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after Beaumarchais. Extra features: Cast gallery, illustrated synopsis; mini documentary with interviews. Program notes and synopsis in English, French, and German in container.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (approximately 202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Format:	DVD-9; NTSC, all regions; soundtracks in DTS 5.1, LPCM stereo; aspect ratio anamorphic 16:9 (wide screen).
Production Credits:	Stage director, David McVicar; set and costume design, Tanya McCallin; lighting, Paule Constable; movement director, Leah Hausman; television director, Jonathan Haswell.